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Definition: Specie |
SpecieNoun1. Coins collectively. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "specie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | Gold, silver or other precious metal in bulk, i. e. in the form of ingots or bars rather than in coin. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Coined money. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Specie."
Synonyms: SpecieSynonyms: coinage (n), metal money (n), mintage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Phrase: "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"; fronti nulla fides; "ah that deceit should steal such gentle shapes"; "a quicksand of deceit"; decipimur specie recti; falsi crimen; fraus est celare fraudem; lupus in fabula; "so smooth, he daubed his vice with show of virtue". |
Money | Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Specie |
| English words defined with "specie": fiat money, folding money ♦ Greenbacker ♦ Hard money ♦ paper currency, paper money, Price current, Price list. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "specie": Chlorotic leaf spot, CHRISTMAS-TREE FARM WORKER ♦ geobotanical prospecting, grapple operator ♦ heel-boom operator ♦ jump-roll operator ♦ LOG LOADER ♦ Specie, Species, SUPERVISOR, GAME FARM, SUPERVISOR, LOG SORTING ♦ TRANSFER CONTROLLER ♦ U'traquists ♦ WILDLIFE CONTROL AGENT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "specie": species. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Specie" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (morter), Italian (kind, manner, sort, species, type, variety), Latin (appearance, beauty, kind, show, sight, splendor, type), Romanian (breed, species). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Questa specie d'amore (1972) | |
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![]() | Who'll have the specie. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Specie claws. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The globe man listening to Webster's speech, on the specie circular. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Property belonging to the Allied and Associated Governments or their nationals restored or surrendered under the Armistice Agreements in specie shall not be credited to the German Government. (reference) |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This is the process by which specie is banished by the paper of the banks. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | How the public debt is to be paid or specie payments resumed is not so important as that a plan should be adopted and acquiesced in. |
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| "Specie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Specie" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "specie": in specie ♦ specie payments. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
specie | 17 |
endangered specie tiger white | 4 |
circular specie | 3 |
endangered specie | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "specie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të vogla (change, petty cash, small change). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قطعة نقدية, عملة مسكوكة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | монети. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kovové peníze. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pengestykke (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin), mønt (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin, The Mint, token). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | specie (morter), munten (coin, mint), metaalgeld (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin), gereed geld (cash, cash balances, cash in hand, cash on hand, cash resources), gemunt metaal (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin), geldstuk (coin), contant geld (cash money), baar geld,specie (cash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پول (Deposit, Gold, Lucre, Money, Muck, Payment, Purse, Remittance, Rhino), وابسته بسکه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kolikko (coin), käteinen raha (cash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | numéraire, monnaie métallique, monnaie, espèces monnayées, espèces (species). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hartgeld (coinage), Münzgeld (hard cash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κέρματα (coin, divisional currency, notes), κέρμα (coin), νόμισμα μεταλλικό, μεταλλικό νόμισμα (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מטבעות, מצלצלים (coins, money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fémpénz (coin, hard cash, small coin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | moneta metallica (bullion, coin, hard money, metallic coin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 正貨 (metallic currency), 正金 (bullion, cash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうき" (bullion, cash, monetary award, prize, redemption, reparation), せいか (chant, confectionery, essence, fame, flower, flower arrangement, fresh flowers, fruitand vegetables, fruits, glory, governing one's family, height of summer, home, hymn, influential family, lower abdomen, metallic currency, midsummer, net price, regular curriculum, regular price, reputation, request for leave of absence, required subject, results, sacred fire, sacred song, shoe-making, the man in power, vacation request). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | argid meainey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eciespay numerário (cash, money). (various references) numerar (cash), monedã metalicã, bani numerar. (various references) звонкая монета (coin, coinage). (various references) metalni novac. (various references) metálico (brassy, metal, metallic, metalline), efectivo (actual, cash, effective, forces, regular). (various references) mynt (coin, coinage, coins, mint, money, piece), kontanter (cash, hard cash, readies, ready money). (various references) เงินเหรียญ (coinage). (various references) sikke (coin), nakit (bankroll, cash, hard cash, hard money, in specie, liquidity, money, prompt, ready, ready cash, ready money, the ready), madeni para (coin, hard cash, hard money, piece, token), demir para (change, coin, hard money). (various references) рід (ancestry, breed, brood, clan, gender, genus, kind, kindred, lineage, name, nature, order, species, stem, stock, type), металеві гроші. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | in specie. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Apo pantoV eidouV ponhrou apecesqe |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ab omni specie mala abstinete vos |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Onscuniað eal yfel. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Absteyne you fro al yuel spice. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Abstayne from all suspicious thinges. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Abstain from all appearance of evil. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Abstain from all appearance of evil. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Keep from every form of evil. |
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| Language | 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | likayi ninyo ang tanang dagway sa kadautan. |
| Chinese | 各 樣 的 惡 事 要 禁 ' 不 作 。 |
| Croatian | svake se sjene zla klonite! |
| Danish | Holder eder fra det onde under alle Skikkelser! |
| Dutch | Onthoudt u van allen schijn des kwaads. |
| Finnish | karttakaa kaikenkaltaista pahaa. |
| French | abstenez-vous de toute espèce de mal. |
| German | Meidet allen bösen Schein. |
| Haitian Creole | Egzante tou sa ki mal. |
| Hungarian | Mindentõl, a mi gonosznak látszik, õrizkedjetek! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jauhilah segala macam kejahatan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Jauhkanlah dirimu daripada segala jenis kejahatan. |
| Italian | Astenetevi da ogni specie di male. |
| Latvian | Izvairieties pat no ïaunuma çnas! |
| Maori | Mawehe atu i nga ahua katoa o te kino. |
| Norwegian | avhold eder fra allslags ondt! |
| Portuguese | Abstende-vos de toda espécie de mal. |
| Rumanian | Feriyi-vq de orice se pare rqu. |
| Russian | х"ЕТЦЙЧБКФЕУШ ПФ ЧУСЛПЗП ТП"Б ЪМБ. |
| Shuar | Ashí yajauch ana nuyanka kanaktiarum. |
| Spanish | Apartaos de toda apariencia de mal. |
| Swahili | na epukeni kila aina ya uovu. |
| Swedish | avhållen eder från allt ont, av vad slag det vara må. |
| Uma | Pelelii' hawe'ea kehi to dada'a. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "specie": species, speciesism, speciesisms. (additional references) | |
Words containing "specie": cenospecies, ecospecies, interspecies, intraspecies, multispecies, subspecies. (additional references) | |
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"Specie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peciam, Scpdcihe, Seekie, seice, Spazio, spcie, Specac, speche, speci, Specia, specif, specil, specre, specy, Speshnev, spiece. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pieces. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: cepes, epics, peise, piece, sepic, spice. | |
-2 letters: cees, cepe, ceps, epic, ices, pecs, pees, pice, pics, pies, seep, sice, sipe, spec, spic. | |
-3 letters: cee, cep, cis, ice, pec, pee, pes, pic, pie, pis, psi, sec, see, sei, sic, sip. | |
-4 letters: es, is, pe, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: eclipse, piecers, pierces, precise, recipes, species. | |
+2 letters: bicepses, calipees, cepheids, cheapies, creepies, crepiest, eclipsed, eclipses, epicenes, epicures, episcope, especial, exciples, peckiest, pectines, pectizes, pedicels, pedicles, pickeers, picotees, piercers, precipes, precised, preciser, precises, preslice, receipts, recopies, reprices, resplice, sapience, seapiece, semplice, sixpence, speciate, specimen. | |
+3 letters: callipees, chelipeds, clipsheet, codpieces, cooperies, copesetic, creepiest, crispened, deciphers, depicters, discepted, earpieces, enciphers, eparchies, epicenism, epicycles, epidemics, episcopes, epistemic, euphenics, eyepieces, impeaches, imprecise, inspected, kinescope, nosepiece, patencies, patiences, peaceniks, peachiest, peccaries, pedicures, pellicles, pencilers, perceives, pericopes, periscope, pesticide, phenetics, pickerels, picketers, piecewise, pinecones, potencies, praecipes, precieuse, precisely, precisest, prelacies, premedics, prentices, preprices, prescient, prescribe, presliced, preslices, priceless, princesse, pudencies, reinspect, replicase, respliced, resplices, sapiences, seapieces, showpiece, sidepiece, sixpences, specialer, speciated, speciates, specified, specifier, specifies, specimens, speechify, spiceless, spiceries, splenetic, toepieces, tricepses. | |
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